41 Lure O Gold 1904

"
Not
"
"
In the
Shaft Alley
his station forward. "Where s
Morning? Anybody
seen him ?
"
He didn t
go out "
sang a voice from near the door.
!
I heard a quick beating of heavy soles along the
planking, and the third officer pounced down upon me
like a pelican
after a fish, just as I had slipped the can
vas over the treasure.
"Out o that out o that!" he roared. "Git
for ard there, you young rascal !
A stinging blow from the stick he carried fell
upon
my back.
"
till I have got my gold !
though he was within two feet of me
stole and hid away under this plank."
I yelled at him angrily,
"
the gold you
The men heard me, and they all rushed aft, in a
whooping, compact mass that bore down upon us both
so heavily that had I not ducked under the shaft they
would have trampled me under their feet. It was
evident that their curiosity to see and handle the gold,
if not actually to make away with it, had much to do
with this rash action. But many
of them must have
been moved by a natural desire to make Fishley desist
from his evident intention of securing the treasure
which they had all worked so hard to find, and which
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